In order to make sure that your WebQuest stays aligned with your unit, you will need to copy and paste 3 things from your Stages 1 and 2 from Dr. Grace's wiki onto this page. (This will also help Dr. Theresa give you better feedback on your Intro, Task, and Conclusion.) Then you will write your first drafts of your Introduction and Conclusion.
G.R.A.S.P.S
( Feel free to copy and paste what you have on your wiki page for Dr. Grace for the GRASPS portion of your unit (Stage 2). Note that you don't need the Standards part, though you can include it if you want.)
Goal
Goal: Create a reflective article using Weebly for The New York Times.
Role
Role: A journalist applying for a job at The New York Times
Audience
Audience: The Editor and Board of Directors at The New York Times.
Situation
Situation: The challenge deals with a reflective article about the Holocaust and like events happening in modern society.
Product & Performance
Product/Presentation: Create a reflective article with Weebly that covers how events like the Holocaust can and do happen in modern society.
Understanding(s)
(Copy and paste the big understanding(s) you have listed in your unit for Dr. Grace in Stage 1 (the answers to the essential questions). What are the academic goals for the unit (which will also be the purpose of the WebQuest).)
• It is possible, in modern society, to have an event like the Holocaust happen. • It is possible for a group of people to almost be destroyed as with what happened during the Holocaust. • Prejudice, as seen during the Holocaust, has been a large part of human history.
Introduction
(Set the stage, give us any background info that we might need to know (but just a hint), this is your HOOK. Provide a segue to the Task . . . make your reader want to click to the next section. There should be nothing that sounds like school work in this section. Don't give away what's going to happen in the Task.)
This is a WebQuest about what happened during the Holocaust and how something like this could happen in modern society. Gas chambers, firing squads, executions are some of the cruel events that happened during this time and now closer today child soldiers run around killing people who do not mine the diamonds or try to steal one. 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust along with 5 million other people but how could such an event happen in modern society? How can similar events like this happen everyday?
Task
(This story should match the Task Description/Summary from your unit in Stage 2 (Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?). You can copy and paste from Dr. Grace's wiki.Tell the story of the Role, Audience, Situation, and Product & Performance. Be a story teller. Save any classroom-specific information for the Process. Build the scenario and stay in character. You can reference the Introduction but try not to duplicate the information that's in the Introduction.)
The New York Times is looking for a journalist for their new online newspaper, The New York Reflections. The Editor and board of directors are looking for someone who can really reflect on the larger issues in the world today. The application process is a reflective article that needs to be on the Holocaust (what happened, people involved, etc.) and how the Holocaust and similar events can happen in modern society. They are looking for several examples that have been reflected on in deep ways. There are a lot of other journalists vying for this same position, so make sure that you do the best job you can and be as creative as possible. The article has to be done online with pictures of the people or places, videos on people or places, audio tracks from the time or from today, maps of the area. Articles without proper citation will not count and therefore will not be read or judged. The author with the best online reflective article, with everything the board of directors and the Editor have asked for (audio files, videos, images, maps and on the Holocaust and how an event like this could happen in modern society), will get the position as the journalist for the new online newspaper, The New York Reflections.
Conclusion
(Tie everything the participants have done back to the Goal. Why did they go through all of this? Tie the scenario to the real world. Remind them of the "Big Idea" that they were supposed to gain from this, just in case they didn't make the connection on their own. Don't get preachy. If you ask a question here, it has to be rhetorical. No work or assignments should be included. Short is good.)
Congratulations on your new job! As a part of the New York Times you will enjoy many benefits and write many online journal articles for our new website. Now we see that you have learned how people felt during the Holocaust and the events that are similar. You have even explored events that happen and have happened in more recent times. Can we go out and stop these events from happening? No, but hopefully now people fully understand why these events might happen because of your webpage.
G.R.A.S.P.S
( Feel free to copy and paste what you have on your wiki page for Dr. Grace for the GRASPS portion of your unit (Stage 2). Note that you don't need the Standards part, though you can include it if you want.)Understanding(s)
(Copy and paste the big understanding(s) you have listed in your unit for Dr. Grace in Stage 1 (the answers to the essential questions). What are the academic goals for the unit (which will also be the purpose of the WebQuest).)• It is possible, in modern society, to have an event like the Holocaust happen.
• It is possible for a group of people to almost be destroyed as with what happened during the Holocaust.
• Prejudice, as seen during the Holocaust, has been a large part of human history.
Introduction
(Set the stage, give us any background info that we might need to know (but just a hint), this is your HOOK. Provide a segue to the Task . . . make your reader want to click to the next section. There should be nothing that sounds like school work in this section. Don't give away what's going to happen in the Task.)This is a WebQuest about what happened during the Holocaust and how something like this could happen in modern society. Gas chambers, firing squads, executions are some of the cruel events that happened during this time and now closer today child soldiers run around killing people who do not mine the diamonds or try to steal one. 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust along with 5 million other people but how could such an event happen in modern society? How can similar events like this happen everyday?
Task
(This story should match the Task Description/Summary from your unit in Stage 2 (Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?). You can copy and paste from Dr. Grace's wiki. Tell the story of the Role, Audience, Situation, and Product & Performance. Be a story teller. Save any classroom-specific information for the Process. Build the scenario and stay in character. You can reference the Introduction but try not to duplicate the information that's in the Introduction.)The New York Times is looking for a journalist for their new online newspaper, The New York Reflections. The Editor and board of directors are looking for someone who can really reflect on the larger issues in the world today. The application process is a reflective article that needs to be on the Holocaust (what happened, people involved, etc.) and how the Holocaust and similar events can happen in modern society. They are looking for several examples that have been reflected on in deep ways. There are a lot of other journalists vying for this same position, so make sure that you do the best job you can and be as creative as possible. The article has to be done online with pictures of the people or places, videos on people or places, audio tracks from the time or from today, maps of the area. Articles without proper citation will not count and therefore will not be read or judged. The author with the best online reflective article, with everything the board of directors and the Editor have asked for (audio files, videos, images, maps and on the Holocaust and how an event like this could happen in modern society), will get the position as the journalist for the new online newspaper, The New York Reflections.
Conclusion
(Tie everything the participants have done back to the Goal. Why did they go through all of this? Tie the scenario to the real world. Remind them of the "Big Idea" that they were supposed to gain from this, just in case they didn't make the connection on their own. Don't get preachy. If you ask a question here, it has to be rhetorical. No work or assignments should be included. Short is good.)Congratulations on your new job! As a part of the New York Times you will enjoy many benefits and write many online journal articles for our new website. Now we see that you have learned how people felt during the Holocaust and the events that are similar. You have even explored events that happen and have happened in more recent times. Can we go out and stop these events from happening? No, but hopefully now people fully understand why these events might happen because of your webpage.